Dear Friends, Thank you for faithfully walking with us this past year. Because of your support, our team has been able to continue restoring people and places—even amidst the challenges we are all facing. And yet we’re hearing from you that the work of A Rocha is more important than it ever has …
Partners
Field Notes: Wheaton College
A Rocha works with congregations and communities of faith around the country to promote creation care, but did you know we also work with students? Meredith Schellhase is the current president of the A Rocha USA Partners @ Wheaton College in Illinois. We caught up with her to see what kind of …
Hope for God’s Groaning World
By Ben Lowe, Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action One of my favorite places in all of America is the St. Lucie River in South Florida. The St. Lucie is a wide tidal river connected to the Indian River Lagoon — the most biodiverse estuary system in the United …
An Ethical Framework
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re sure to get there. When it comes to environmental conservation, that’s exactly where the world is: huge seemingly intractable problems and little consensus on how (and even whether) to address them. More …
How Do We Define Success?
By Ben Lowe, Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action It’s no secret that there’s a strong undercurrent of discouragement and despair in the conservation community. Given the challenges we’re up against, it’s hardly surprising. Needs can be overwhelming, …
Reconciling Conservation and Development
by Ben Lowe* "If you’re asking me to choose between conservation and development, I’m going to choose development every time."My colleague, Rachel Lamb, and I received this comment repeatedly when we first arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We were at Université Chrétienne Bilingue du …
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Profiles in Stewardship: Dave Timmer
Dave Timmer (Au Sable Alum '98; Grad Fellow '04-'05) serves as Stewardship Director for A Rocha USA in Northwest Washington. Timmer's talents and demands are many, as evidenced by the three-part exchange between him and Brook Wilke on the role of farmers markets in sustainability agriculture. His …